Metro officials said they have found no connection between the derailment of a 7000 series train Friday and a wheel set defect ... incident have uncovered 32 rail cars with bolts that are loose ...

STAMFORD -- Metro-North Railroad is investigating how a brake pad locked and flattened the wheel of one of Metro-North Railroad's new M-8 cars during a late-night run Wednesday morning between ...

The newly patented Hand Brake Torque Indicator (BTI) from CMN Components Inc., a nationwide railc ar parts supplier, is a torque indicating device that directly replaces traditional vertical railcar ...

UNDERNEATH ONE OF THE CARS ON FIFTH THIRD -- AT THE OTHER END OF THE AXLE THE WHEEL IS COMPLETELY MISSING ... HE REACHED UP AND PULLED THE EMERGENCY BRAKE. >> A SCARY MOMENT.

The engineer saw the SUV and applied the emergency brake ... wheel moments before the crash are a focus of the investigation, officials said. “There are two big questions here: Why was the car ...

The initial fire started February 3 when a Norfolk Southern rail ... the brake application, Homendy said. “During this deceleration, the wheel bearing failed,” she said. “Car 23 derailed ...

The brakes need to be installed on each car to work properly — a daunting prospect for an industry with some 1.5 million cars on the tracks and little idle capacity. A coalition that includes railcar ...